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So I would need some info regarding the yearly total sales for singles and albums in the noughties, I've tried to find some info in the decade MW reports, but all I could find was :

 

Singles :

 

(1997 : 87m)

2003 : 30.89m

2009 : over 150m

 

In 2000 : #1 = 11.08% of the market

In 2009 : #1 = 3.22% of the market

 

 

Albums :

 

Declining every year since 2004

Sales in the noughties = highest total in the format’s history

 

 

Would anyone have more info for every year?

That would be much appreciated, and very interesting for everyone I'm sure.

 

I was not sure where to post it though, so feel free to move it to an other section ;)

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Singles

YEAR TOTAL

2000 55,695,507 2005 47,882,180

2001 51,210,494 2006 66,843,844

2002 43,936,911 2007 86,562,355

2003 30,887,864 2008 115,139,176

2004 32,266,501 2009 152,749,077

Albums

YEAR TOTAL

2000 134,695,507 2005 158,988,944

2001 144,910,940 2006 154,099,265

2002 149,178,638 2007 138,067,371

2003 159,277,740 2008 133,643,773

2004 163,405,658 2009 128,946,805

Singles

YEAR TOTAL

2000 55,695,507 2005 47,882,180

2001 51,210,494 2006 66,843,844

2002 43,936,911 2007 86,562,355

2003 30,887,864 2008 115,139,176

2004 32,266,501 2009 152,749,077

Albums

YEAR TOTAL

2000 134,695,507 2005 158,988,944

2001 144,910,940 2006 154,099,265

2002 149,178,638 2007 138,067,371

2003 159,277,740 2008 133,643,773

2004 163,405,658 2009 128,946,805

 

That's fantastic, I'm putting that in a graph and it's fascinating to see the trend. Do you have any figures for further back?

In a way, sales from 2004 were even worse since the above figure includes downloads which weren't counted for chart purposes at the time. The amount of physical singles sold in 2004 was 26,495,153. This equates to the lowest annual sale since at least the 1950s.
That's fantastic, I'm putting that in a graph and it's fascinating to see the trend. Do you have any figures for further back?
These are figures taken from www.zobbel.de and are shipments to the trade rather than over the counter sales:

 

SINGLES

 

1938: 6m

1945: 10m

1959: 60m

 

1964: 64m

1965: 56m

1966: 46m

1967: 46m

1968: 44m

1969: 41m

 

1970: 41m

1971: 43m

1972: 46.2m

1973: 54.6m

1974: 62.7m

1975: 56.9m

1976: 56.9m

1977: 62.1m

1978: 88.8m

1979: 89.1m

 

1980: 77.9m

1981: 77.4m

1982: 78.6m

1983: 74.0m

1984: 77.0m

1985: 73.8m

1986: 67.5m

1987: 63.413m

1988: 60.118m

1989: 61.114m

 

1990: 58.858m

1991: 56.302m

1992: 52.921m

1993: 56.276m

1994: 63.049m

1995: 70.711m

1996: 78.264m

1997: 87.021m

1998: 79.373m

1999: 80.059m

 

2000: 66.080m

2001: 59.532m

2002: 52.532m

2003: 36.425m

2004: 31.435m (37.206m incl downloads)

2005: 26.105m (53.209m incl downloads)

2006: 71.500m

2007: 89.300m

2008: 116.900m

 

Fiesta's figures are over the counter sales, a more accurate measure than shipments since some shipments can end up as returns.

 

Over the counter sales pre 2000:

 

1997: 77,613,520

1998: 73,788,118

1999: 71,001,136

 

and Fiesta's figures continue on from 2000.

 

There are no over the counter sales available from prior to 1997.

 

Over the counter album sales pre 2000

 

1997: 109,325,353

1998: 121,452,693

1999: 121,525,697

 

then as Fiesta's figures from 2000

 

Shipment figures are available at www.zobbel.de - click "Chart Analyses" from the left side menu then choose "UK Record Sales - Albums 1972-2007" from the right side menu.

 

Shipments are always higher than over the counter sales as you can see from the singles "over the counter" sales compared to "shipments". The difference is usually a few million, but sometimes up to 10 million or more. For albums the difference up to 2007 was much, much bigger. This is because for albums the number of units shipped of each individual disc were counted so, for example, double albums were counted as two units shipped. So, for example, in 2004 at the height of album sales, 163,405,658 albums were sold at retail (ie over the counter) but 239,369,000 albums were shipped. From 2007 the BPI changed the way it counted shipments of albums to "packages" rather than units so, for example, a double album counted as one package. The BPI then backdated its album shipment measurements to 2000 using this new system and the 2004 shipment figure under the new measurement is 176,100,000. Again, actual retail sales are a better figure for the customer though the industry is still more concerned with actual shipments.

Edited by Robbie

There are no over the counter sales available from prior to 1997.

 

These do actually exist, the BPI books do contain them, but -

 

1) You have to calculate them from 2 different tables in 2 different sections. As the figures in each table are rounded you get a significant margin of error.

 

2) They date from the years when market estimates of retail sales were calculated by multipying panel sales totals by a 'multiplier' to give a best fit figure for the market. The multiplier used by the BPI statisticians is not the same as that used by the chart compilers, or the likes of Alan Jones, in every case (although often they are).

 

If anyone is still interested, and maybe some will not know what I'm on about, I'll try to fish out the figures from my own notes.

These do actually exist, the BPI books do contain them, but -

 

1) You have to calculate them from 2 different tables in 2 different sections. As the figures in each table are rounded you get a significant margin of error.

 

2) They date from the years when market estimates of retail sales were calculated by multipying panel sales totals by a 'multiplier' to give a best fit figure for the market. The multiplier used by the BPI statisticians is not the same as that used by the chart compilers, or the likes of Alan Jones, in every case (although often they are).

 

If anyone is still interested, and maybe some will not know what I'm on about, I'll try to fish out the figures from my own notes.

I wouldn't mind seeing the figures if that is possible. All I've ever seen from prior to 1997 are shipment figures so it would be good to see retail sales figures too, even if the figures aren't quite as accurate as those compiled from 1997 onwards (which I assume are based on total CIN/OCC DUS figures for each year).

Edited by Robbie

This is what I have calculated from the available data.

 

1985 67.8m

1986 60.7m

1987 60.8m

1988 53.5m

1989 58.9m

1990 57.9m

1991 56.6m

1992 48.2m

1993 47.7m

1994 51.4m

1995 65.6m

1996 69.3m

 

Note that the BPI used 15 as the singles multiplier from 1992-1996. OCC inherited that value from Gallup but eventually used 17 for 1994 and 1995, and 16 was used by Hit Music for 1996 (their year-end data for 1995 was also at 16, but subsequently discarded in favour of 17 later in the decade). As I recently posted on Haven, the 1995 figure using a multiplier of 17 gives about 74.3m, which is higher than the 70.7m shipped. The DUS figure for 1996 is 66.2m, by the way.

 

Additionally, it appears that after the event Alan Jones and Hit Music began to use 16 as the multiplier for 1991, although Gallup had used 17 and so had the BPI. I'm not sure what multiplier was used by the BPI for 1985-1987. Alan Jones used 18, but I've been told Gallup's official multiplier was 17 and that Alan was interpreting the data differently to them. Presumably the BPI used Gallup's multiplier, whatever it actually was.

 

All of the above means that sales of individual singles, singles artists and other related data are not necessarily calculated using the same multiplier as the BPI were using for a given year. Indeed most individual titles from 1994-1996 are quoted using OCC multipliers, or at times the DUS.

 

Edited by MFR

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